The body of a British tourist who died on holiday in Ireland was flown back to the UK with an extra heart and pair of lungs, it emerged last night. The extra organs were found in a plastic bag stitched inside the body of Louis Selo, 55, by a pathologist who performed a second post mortem once the body was back in Britain.
Mr Selo, a father-of-three, from New Malden in Surrey, had just got into a taxi at Dublin airport with his wife Anna and 14-year-old daughter when he collapsed with a heart attack. The driver raced to the city's Beaumont hospital, but he was found to be dead on arrival.
An inital post mortem was carried out before the body was sent back to his family for burial. Only when a second examination was performed - standard procedure when a Briton dies abroad - was the discrepancy discovered.
Mr Selo's mother, Laura, yesterday told the Sunday Tribune in Ireland that her family's grief was unimaginable.
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